Feels like quoting these words from the book, The Bridge Across Forever,

“That’s what learning is, after all:not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning”.

Here too, the lady and the hero of our book are treading their first few steps on the path of love, through a game of chess…